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basidiolichen |
basidiomycete |
basidiomycetes |
basidiomycetous |
basidiomycetous fungi |
Basidiomycota
| basidiomycotina
| basidiospore
| basidiosporous
| basidium
| basifier
Basidiomycota
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Basidiomycota has 1 sense
- basidiomycota(n = noun.plant) basidiomycotina, subdivision basidiomycota, subdivision basidiomycotina - comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi; Array is a kind of division
is a member of division eumycota, eumycota
CIDE DICTIONARY
Basidiomycota, n. pl. [NL., fr. NL. & E. basidium + Gr. , , fungus.].
A large subdivision of the kingdom Fungi coextensive with the phylum Basidiomycetes , characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc. Among the classes of the Basidiomycota are: Gasteromycetes Tiliomycetes Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); and Hymenomycetes
"In the 1913 Webster, the Basidiomycetes were defined as "coördinate with the Ascomycetes ", and other fungal phyla (the Zygomycota and Deuteromycota ) were not mentioned."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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